pdf23ds comments on Trust in Bayes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdf23ds 30 January 2008 10:49:05AM 1 point [-]

Gray Area:

On an infinite stream of items, reservoir sampling could still not be used, because for the distribution to be uniform the complete set has to be evaluated. A program to pick a random integer this way would never terminate.